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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

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I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer questions.

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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

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That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.

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I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.

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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.

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When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.

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The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.

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We're a live band. It's what we do best.

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When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.

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For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

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Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

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There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys. Plus, Dave Matthews looks just like Forrest Gump.

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There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

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Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.

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After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.

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The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.

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We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

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We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.

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When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

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The music became secondary to being rock stars.

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A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.

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We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.

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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.

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I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.

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I loathe and detest heavy metal.

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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!

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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.

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Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

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If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.

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You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.

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We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.

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Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.

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